Investigating Assumptions about the Relationship between Viewing Duration and Better Art Appreciations

Lachapelle, Richard; Douesnard, Manon; Keenlyside, Ernily

doi:10.1080/00393541.2009.11518771

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“…The fifth theme we found supported the claim that more time spent with artwork leads to greater appreciation (Lachapelle et al. ). We identified in our interviews quotes from viewers who said they didn't think they'd be all that interested in seeing the exhibition, but once they started looking in a systematic way, via the Sense‐Making interview, they became more intrigued and more appreciative of the experience.…”

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Everyday Encounters with Art: Comparing Expert and Novice Experiences

Foreman-Wernet¹,

Dervin²

2016

Curator The Museum Journal

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The study reported here looked at how two groups of people – one with art expertise and one without – made sense of their encounters with an exhibition of a single artist, the late Paul‐Henri Bourguignon. The study builds on previous research using Dervin's Sense‐Making Methodology to study how people interpret their arts experiences within the contexts of their everyday lives. Informants were asked to rank‐order their selections among the pieces on display according to which had the most impact for them (however they defined impact). Each informant then did a structured qualitative interview focusing on the work he or she chose as most impactful. The researchers looked at thematic elements and other patterns of similarity and difference that arose in the interviews and offer thoughts on how the results of this study may provide insight to those who work in museums.

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confidence: 81%

Everyday Encounters with Art: Comparing Expert and Novice Experiences

Foreman-Wernet¹,

Dervin²

2016

Curator The Museum Journal

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“…Hooper- and art non-specialists (e.g. Lachapelle, 2007;Lachapelle et al, 2009) started to grow, whereby the research approach moved from the comparative to the differentiated one. Today, museum visitor studies are being complemented by research into interpretive resources, made by curators, such as labels, guidebooks and tours, as well as architectural modes of communicating art in museums (e.g.…”

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Art Appreciation as a Learned Competence: A Museum-based Qualitative Study of Adult Art Specialist and Art Non-Specialist Visitors

Sova¹

2015

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Since Bourdieu, it has been argued that art appreciation requires “knowledge”. The focus of this qualitative study was to examine art appreciation as a learned competence by exploring two different groups of museum visitors: art specialists and art non-specialists. The research was conducted at Moderna galerija in Ljubljana. Twenty-three adults were recruited and accompanied during their visit to the museum. Participants were requested to “think out loud”, which meant to talk about what they saw, thought, and felt about the artworks. There was a short interview conducted with each participant before entering the museum to gain insight into their art-related and museum-visiting experience. The analysis of the data revealed that some processes of art appreciation were similar within the two groups. Both art specialists and art nonspecialists interact with museum objects physically and intellectually; they see contents and formal qualities as a whole; they respond emotionally to artworks; appreciation includes their personal experience; they search museum interpretation/information for their understanding. Some noticeable differences were found. Art specialists respond to artworks with more understanding and are willing to put more effort into art appreciation, whereas art non-specialists respond with less understanding and put less effort into art appreciation. This paper focuses on the differences between the two groups; reflective and spontaneous appreciation of art, objective and subjective appreciation of art and the effort put into art appreciation. The paper ends with a discussion of the implications of the study for the teaching of art and museum education.

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“…With regard to exploring the impacts of longer viewing time on art engagement, other than a small number of single-subject reports (Clark, 2006; Funch, 2019; Reed, 2017), only one research study has investigated the influence of slow looking on a population level. Lachapelle et al (2009) had 34 nonexpert participants engage in two viewing activities—the first in which they could look at as many works as they wanted while engaging in a think-aloud protocol and a second in which they had to look at an artwork for 5 min and then think aloud for 5 min after viewing. But while the researchers did find that a mandatory longer viewing time led to increased art appreciation as determined by enumerative analysis, their study lacked a control condition and standardized dependent measures.…”

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Slow looking at still art: The effect of manipulating audio context and image category on mood and engagement during an online slow looking exercise.

Igdalova¹,

Chamberlain²

2023

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

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In the past two decades, "slow looking" has emerged as an engaging art-viewing approach used by museums around the world as part of their in-person and online programming, but there has been little empirical inquiry into the precise effects of the practice. This study represents the first such attempt, exploring reported impacts of slow looking within an online context. Specifically, the study examined the effects of two factors -audio context (control, meditation, historical) and image category (photography, representational, abstract)-on mood change and aesthetic engagement. A total of 141 participants completed the online exercise, first selecting a series of three artworks within one of the image categories and then viewing each for 3 min per work while listening to the randomly allocated audio context. Participants reported feeling significantly more pleasant and relaxed after the exercise. Representational artworks were chosen the most and also contributed to greater overall aesthetic experience scores, and the historical condition was found to lead to greater levels of cultural understanding and engagement. Future investigation within an ecologically valid setting is currently underway, examining the contribution of different live viewing elements to the slowlooking experience.

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Investigating Assumptions about the Relationship between Viewing Duration and Better Art Appreciations

Cited by 9 publications

References 11 publications

Everyday Encounters with Art: Comparing Expert and Novice Experiences

Everyday Encounters with Art: Comparing Expert and Novice Experiences

Art Appreciation as a Learned Competence: A Museum-based Qualitative Study of Adult Art Specialist and Art Non-Specialist Visitors

Slow looking at still art: The effect of manipulating audio context and image category on mood and engagement during an online slow looking exercise.

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